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Malena refers to beautiful woman. Just like the role in the movie Malena whose beauty is not only seductive like bright red but it is also dangerous. Sometimes it pleasures sometimes gets into trouble. In the perspective of women, I use several groups of scene that are borrowed from the movie Malena to present what those women have experienced. Beauty often is like red, which is helpless and pale. However, time goes by, those colors will fade away eventually.

Tianyi Zhang (B. 1995, Hunan, China) lives and works in Beijing, & Brooklyn, NY. Earning an MFA (’19) Degree in Photographic and Electronic Media at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and a BFA (’17 & ’14) in Studio Photography, and Design respectively, from The Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), in Beijing, China where she won numerous awards of excellence while studying. Zhang was featured at Pinewood Studios in UK, and ESMoA Video Art+Film Festival in CA. The artists photography and video have been presented at ElijahWheat Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, CICA Museum in South Korea, The Village Theater in Danville, CA, the ICA Baltimore, Riggs & Leidy Gallery in Baltimore, as was highlighted on LED boards during Artscape Baltimore 2019. Zhang’s work has been reviewed or appeared in Pint Volat, Soleil Rouge, and picked as 15 things not to miss in New York's Art World in Artnet News.